Anna [When we were all talking about love languages, Dad explains how you can change over your life]"Oh yeah, totally. 'Cause I used to be into drawing."

Anna [after falling off her bike]"I'm OK! I don't need the arcade kit!"

Dad [Getting ready to give a gift to the girls for their piano recital]"Alright girls, we're going to do something that's long overdue."Anna "Ha. Probably taxes..."

Josh [After reading Peter's sign that said, "DJ takes requests, and tips] "Hey. I have a tip for you. If people don't like the song you're playing, you should change it."

Anna "Sometimes I look around and think, I am Anna...and these are other people..."

Josh "Listen. You give me the Simon's Quest code and I'll shop in the women's section!"

Josh "You smell like an air freshener, Mom."Dad "oh Josh those are kind of cheap so that sounds like you’re kind of insulting Mom when you say that."Josh "MMMMmmmm…you smell like a $100 air freshener."

Anna "Mom. Where’s the first Bible ever. Like ever."Mom "Ummm, I’m not sure. But maybe you could ask Dad about that"Anna "Well. I was gonna, but I didn’t want to get a whole sermon…so I asked you"

Dad "Hmm. These chips taste stale."Mom "They're not stale. They're just from Aldi."

Dad: [After listening to the long piano intro to Chicago's Does anybody really know what time it is?] "I don't like that dissident music. It's all crazy and off time."Anna: "I like it! 'Cuz that's how I play!"

Paul: "So according to this book kids, who shot JFK?"Josh: "Lee Elvis Hardwell?"

Paul: "How Many Kings by Downhere is a perfect running song. The beat is just my pace."Jen: "Oh yeah? My song is Canon in D."

Anna[while washing herself in the shower]: "Hmmmmm. Arms are helpful."

So we figured a special post was necessary for the goofy, funny and sometimes downright hilarious things that our little chitlins have uttered lately. So, at the risk of sounding like we’re boasting, here goes nothing:

Dad: “Does ALDI have a bathroom?”

Kids: “Yes. Up by the register.”

Dad: “But how is it, is it clean?”

Naomi: “I don’t know, I’ve never gone in the guys.”

Peter: “Have you guys heard about the oldest woman in America? She was born in like 1892.”

Mom/Dad: “Wait. She would be like 130 years old or something.”

Josh: “That’s impossible, because the Bible says that ‘my spirit shall not dwell with man for more than 120 years.'”

Anna: “Uh yeah. She isn’t a man.”

Peter: “Man. I really want to fly somewhere.”

Josh: “I just want to get on the moving sidewalk.”

Josh: “Hey! They should make microscopic pencils so that single-celled organisms can draw!”

Notable quotable

"Being different is not legalism - legalism is when you try to earn your way to God through your good works - it's just holy living." -Laura Mouro

"I think the devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements:
noise, hurry and crowds . Satan is quite aware of the power of silence."-Jim Elliot

"I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him."-Dave Dravecky

"Sin makes government necessary; sin also makes it necessary that government be limited."-Paul Edwards

"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else."-CS Lewis

"Being a stay at home Mom is much like recovering from an addiction. An addiction to thinking it's all about me"-Abbey Bertolone

"It is better to be without bread in your houses than without Bibles, for the words of God's mouth are and should be to you more than your necessary food. But what will it avail you to have Bibles in your houses, if you do not use them? To have the great things of God's law and gospel written to you, if you count them as a strange thing? You look daily into your shop-books, and perhaps converse much with the news books, and shall your Bibles be thrown by as an almanac out of date?"-Matthew Henry

Biblical definition of marriage: "...two sinful people pledging to live together with all of their faults, for the rest of their lives"-Gary Thomas in Sacred Marriage

"The gospel teaches a "new way to be human," which, in reality, is nothing more than returning to the "old way to be human," the way that God had originally ordained before sin. " -Eric Rauch